Vista's Troublesome UAC is Developer's Fault?

MythMoth wonders: "We've heard all about the pain and discomfort of working with Windows' User Account Control (UAC) switched on, but now Ian Griffiths is explaining that the developers are the problem — they brought it on themselves. In earlier articles we have heard that Microsoft think that everyone should do it like this — Ian does acknowledge that things are better in the Unix world, but is he right? Is the onus now on the developers to help fix a problem that they did not cause?" Rather than ask the user for permission on every operation, what other ways could Microsoft have improved Vista's security?

Comments

Re:Admin-level privileges

[TENTH SHOW JAM]

Hmm, a software company approves another software company's software.

Nope. Can't see it happening.

Re:I saw a different problem

[B'Trey]

Well, it IS a new item on the stack...

(Please do note that I'm not defending this decision, just pointing out what the thought process likely was...)